The council said it had no option but to move the residents of 650 flats, while work is carried out.

But 83 residents living on the Chalcots Estate refused to leave their homes.

Residents leave a tower block on the Chalcots Estate in Camden, London, after the building was evacuated to allow ‘urgent fire safety works’ to take place. (Picture: PA)

The council’s leader Georgia Gould said the local authority was left with little choice when the fire service advised there was nothing to be done to ensure the safety of the residents.

She said the fire service ‘told us they could not guarantee our residents’ safety in those blocks’.

‘I know it’s difficult, but Grenfell changes everything and I just don’t believe we can take any risk with our residents’ safety and I have to put them first.

The Taplow residential tower block on the Chalcots Estate in north London was evacuated yesterday (Picture: Getty Images)

‘I offered to pay for fire stations to be stationed outside all of those blocks so we could have a couple of days to get the work done but the message was there was absolutely nothing I could do to make those blocks safe that night.’

The Granville Point, Harpenmead Point and Templemead Point, in Barnet – The three towers in Barnet were found to have similar rain screen panels on their cladding as Grenfell Tower, but a non-combustible insulation material.

They had all been reclad in 2012, Barnet Council said.

Braithwaite House, in Islington – Braithwaite House was one of eight blocks tested after it was found to have aluminium composite material.

Test results from the other blocks, Harvist Estate and Brunswick Estate, are yet to be returned, a spokesman said.

Burnham residential tower on the Chalcots Estate showing the bottom section of the building after cladding was removed, in the borough of Camden, north London (Picture: AP)

Manchester

Village 135 development, Wythenshawe – Wythenshawe Community Housing Group said 78 panels were being removed from a small area of the overall development.

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group said 78 panels were being removed from a small area of the overall Village 135 development.

Plymouth

Mount Wise Tower Estate – Plymouth Community Homes said it will be removing the combustible elements of cladding from the three 16-storey blocks as soon as possible.

Pendleton Together, the management company that runs the blocks in Salford, said the issue of the cladding is a ‘real concern’ for residents.

The firm said every householder in a high-rise block is to have a home visit to carry out basic fire safety checks on doors and smoke alarms, while patrols of buildings are being carried out ‘as a precautionary safety measure.’

Sheffield

Harold Lambert Court in the Park Hill area of the city is being checked by the management firm, Together Housing, with cladding samples sent off for analysis.

Harold Lambert Court in the Park Hill area of the city is being checked by the management firm, Together Housing, (Pictrue: Google Maps)

Halifax

Three blocks in Lower Mixenden, a village outside Halifax, are being checked by independent contractors.

Together Housing, which manages the properties, Jumples Court, Mixenden Court and Wheatley Court, say they are submitting samples of the cladding but an initial visual inspection suggests it is not the same type as that used on the Grenfell Tower.